GLOUCESTER SEVENTEEN by Tom Jensen
(IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR spoof of song sung by Frank Sinatra)
For the Gloucester seventeen
This was a very bad year
This was a very bad year for teenage girls
With pregnancy pacts
With one immature act
They had crushed their dreams
The Gloucester seventeen
When they turned twenty-one
It was a very bad year
It was a very bad year for single moms
Who collect welfare
Their lives heading nowhere
Their lives coming undone
They were just twenty-one
When they were thirty-five
It was a very bad year
It was a very bad year for a family of two
Of such limited means
Living off macaroni and cheese
Struggling just to survive
When they were thirty five
And now they're looking back
Figuring out where their lives went off track
Realizing the fact that they've wasted their primes
They sit there alone
Their childhood friends have all gone
With just one choice so unwise
Becoming mothers not wives...
They made a mess of thirty four lives